Garment-supporter



(No Model.)

J. M. MARGH. GARMENT SUPPORTER.

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Patented Nov. 26, 1889.

UNTTEDN STATES PATENT EETCE.

JACOB M. MARCH, OF PIIGENIXVILLE, PENNSYLVANIA.

GARMENT-SUPPORTER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 415,973, dated November 26, 1889.

Application led June 29, 1889. Serial No. 316,087. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

lBe it known that I, JACOB IWI. MARCH, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of Phoenixville, Chester county, Pennsylvania, hav-e invented certain Improvements in Stocking-Retainers, of which the following is a specification.

The object of my invention is to construct a cheap and simple stocking-supporter that will readily fasten the stocking to the under garment, and that will lie perfectly flat to the limb of the wearer.

In the accompanying drawings,Figure l is a view showing the supporter attached to the stocking and under-garment. Fig. 2 is a face View of the supporter. Fig. 3 is a plan View. Fig. 4 is a perspective view showing the supporter open, ready to be secured to the stocking. Fig. 5 is a View of the supporter closed. Fig. 6 is a View of the supporter in the form of a garter, and Fig. 7 is a diagram illustrating the application of the supporter.

Referring to the drawings, A A are two metallic plates preferably struck up from sheet metal and hinged together at a, so as to open, as shown in Fig. 4, the pivot of this hinge a being above the level of the plate. These plates are cut away at c e, and at the ends of each plate are prongs b Z9, whichpass each other, and are preferably tapered, as shown in Fig. 2, thus interlocking when they are fastened in place. section A is a fastening-buckle E, having a head e', which overlaps the por-tion A' of the retainer, so that when the fastening is moved to the position shown in Fig. et the portions of the retainer can be moved upon the hinge; but when the buckle is moved to the position shown in Fig. 5 the retainer is perfectly rigid and cannot work loose. The hinge, as shown in Fig. 3, is above the inner face of the plates A A', so that on the moving of the two parts on the hinge the ends of the prongs b will be thrown apart, allowing one set of prongs to readily enter and pass through the stocking into the under-garment.

To apply the supporter, the device is opened, as shown in Fig. 4, and the prongs b b of the portion A are inserted in the same manner as pins into the material of the stocking and of Pivoted at e to thethe drawers, and when the prongs are forced in position the portion A is turned over, as shown in Figs. l and 5, the prongs l) b of this portion entering the fabric of both the stocking and drawer-leg and interlocking with the prongs of the portion A. The fastening 1s then placed in position, and it will be impossible for the retainer to work loose.

In some cases two or more of these retainers can be placed upon the leg, as circumstances require, and in place of the fastening e (shown in Fig. 2) the retainers may be turned, as shown in Fig. 6, and the portions A A' may be provided with loops f f, bands F being passed through these loops, so that if two retainers are used on one stocking the bands F will hold the retainers together, and at the same time keepthem flat against the leg and impart sufficient tension to prevent the prongs from becoming disengaged from the garments when the fastening e is dlspensed with; but in some cases the fastening e may be attached to the retainers, together r with the bands F. The bands F F also prevent the stocking from sagging between the two retainers, as sometimes the stockings are turned over the garter.

I claim as my inventionl. The combination, in a stocking-retainer, of the plates A A', hinged together at the center and having prongs at each end eX- tending toward the pivot-line of the plates, substantially as described.

2. The combination,in a stocking-support, of the plates A A', hinged together at the center, with prongs b b at the ends of each plate, said prongs extending toward the pivotline of the plates and interlocking with each other, so that the prongs of the retainer will enter the stocking at or about the same point.

3. The combination of the platesA A', pivoted at a, and prongs b b, with a fastening E, pivoted to one of the plates and adapted to pass over and retain the opposite plate, substantially as described.

4. The combination, in a stocking-retainer, of the plates A A', hinged together at the center and having prongs at the ends, the plates having loops, with bands attached to said loops, substantially as described.

5. The combination, in a stocking-retainer,

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of two or more fastening` devices each een# to this speeieation vin thepieseneeoftwosubsisting of two plates hinged together with seribing Witnesses.

serrated inner edvfe with bands Secured t0 said plates :beting :to: keep said fastening de- JACOB M' MARGH vices in engagement with the garment, sub- Titnessesz stnntially as described. HENRY HOWSON, In testimony whereof I have signed my name HARRY SMITH. 

